I was always more interested in music and audio synthesis than in
video. It was a video artist, though, Walter Wright, who gave me his
Electronotes collection, thus introducing me to the magic. The
combination of audio and video synthesizers was, as you can read in my
audio synthesizer manual for the studio artists, primarily for VC of the
video synthesizer, as well as having some audio oscillators to jazz up
(mess up) the video signal. At the ETC the video art generally
supervened over the audio art. LFOs and other slope generators were
used to automate some of the mixing and clipping in the analog video
machines. It was pretty basic.
I believe that video synthesis these days is primarily digital and
computer contolled. However, the ETC does have a tradition of
integrating old analog equipment with newer technologies. There is a
long history of video synthesis applied to video art. Check out the
experimentaltvcenter website.
-Richard Brewster
srmaietta wrote:
>YES, thats it!! a video interface/FX module..
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>so Richard, whats the skinny with video/visual synthesis? ... Say I
>want a module that I can plug an RCA cable into and plug the RCA's
>other end into my TV's video in.. what could we do, what could we
>generate? Maybe a module that we pass video through and we impart
>effects or changes to the video signal.. In time with our sounds of
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